I don’t think anyone’s shocked at the cannibalism of the GOP are they?
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Sen. Tom Coburn (R-OK) allegedly told Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) at a recent closed-door meeting that there is a GOP “leadership vacuum” in the Senate, the Hillreported Thursday.

Coburn called out Sens. Ted Cruz (R-TX) and Mike Lee (R-UT) for their push to defund Obamacare, which he said gave outside groups “ammo” to attack their GOP colleagues, a Republican who attended the meeting told the Hill.

Now, Now, calm down,lol. My favorite pic of your Pres and First lady, is the one when he at his desk and she is leaning over him. For some reason that pic always gets me

conlakappa

That particularly photoshoot, all of the photos, was probably among the most smoking hot photos to ever grace Ebony.

conlakappa

That particularly photoshoot, all of the photos, was probably among the most smoking hot photos to ever grace Ebony.

Alma98

I love the first dance video from 2009 I smile every time I watch it.

qosine

How many ways do I loathe Andrea Mitchell?
She just helpfully pointed out to Gene Sperling
of the WHG that Republicans have already won
the battle with the sequester level spending,
gutting programs Democrats care about.

conlakappa

Botox and hand plastic surgery have warped what was her brain.

Miranda

Is that a U-haul truck pulling up outside the Capitol right now? Is that Boehner’s staff over at Kinko’s trying to update their resumes on the sly?
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Reid: Boehner Told Me Last Month He Wanted A Clean CR
SAHIL KAPUR – OCTOBER 3, 2013, 1:00 PM EDT

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) told reporters Thursday that Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) expressed his support privately last month for a “clean” continuing resolution to prevent a government shutdown.

He said the two leaders negotiated and agreed to fund the government at current sequestration levels of roughly $986.3 billion, which he said Democrats “hated” but were willing to accept to avoid shutdown.

“That was my concession to get this done cleanly,” Reid said.

The Democratic leader said Boehner was thwarted by his conservative wing, which demanded concessions to keep the government open. “He doesn’t have the courage to stand up to this small band of anarchists,” he said.

“The GOP congressman walked it back on Thursday after it gained widespread attention ridicule, scorn, derision, and a round of mockery.”

There, fixed it.

AxelFoley

For Barack and Michelle:

TyrenM

See. Now you got me listening to the extended version.

AxelFoley

*sends it to his iTunes*

jziglar

The republicans are so stupid. The smart people were telling them that this shutdown would fail and potentially ruin their chances of holding the house. This shut down is ridiculous compared to the one in 1995 and 1996. Then they were fighting over spending in the budget with the Clinton administration, while this time they’re fighting to stop people from getting healthcare. And unlike Clinton who had to worry about re-election, President Obama is termed out so he has nothing to lose.

The messaging from republicans especially today has been horrible, the republican donors are pissed off, and Boehner knows that the cave on the CR and debt ceiling is coming. So what will they gain from all this ? Pretty much nothing while hurting their party in the long run.

Long ago I saw a photo of them on the campaign trail in 2008 and it was clear that things had just “gotten personal” as that tweeter wrote or it was about to. I cannot find it now and I want to keep the corners really close on search terms!

qosine

That’s a fantastic photo. So intimate:)

AxelFoley

No disrespect to our First Lady, but–Dem. Legs.

Whooo. Seriously though, she got some beautiful legs.

*fans himself*

crazycanuck

Axel, I’m beginning to worry about you

conlakappa

A few months ago, Axel was fighting my husband over the First Lady, with both men delivering woofs/threats via me as the intermediary. Fools in the MSM underestimate just how much folks care about the First Couple.

BarbinAtlSouth

I feel like a voyeur looking at that picture.

that look is so intimate

qosine

Shots fired outside the Capitol building?

JB20005

One capitol security officer injured.

Probably not getting paid for today’s work.

crazycanuck

According to twitter, the person tried to get into the WH first. What is going on?

http://pragmaticobotsunite.blogspot.com/ Sepia

I don’t know but with past situations, the first reports are usually incorrect, so we’ll have to wait and see. There’s supposed to be a press conference in about 10 minutes.

AxelFoley

GOP don’t realize, or rather don’t care, that they are fuckin’ with people’s livelihoods. Playin’ games with people’s jobs, while those same folks gotta put food on the table.

crazycanuck

They will blame this on the President

TyrenM

2nd Amendment remedies huh? Holder, Hagel, whoever – get em!

rikyrah

Sleepy Hollow Fans…Good News!!

………

October 3, 2013 10:15 AM PDT
Fox Renews Sleepy Hollow For Second Season

by Kimberly Roots

Sleepy Hollow Season 2Now Sleepy Hollow‘s Ichabod has to get some new clothes — after all, he’s going to be around for at least another year.

In the fall’s first renewal, Fox on Thursday picked up its new supernatural hit for a 13-episode second season.

The drama’s premiere episode grabbed a total audience of 10.1 million and scored a 3.5 rating in the demo, making it Fox’s best fall debut since 2006′s Standoff. (Wait, 2006 was seven years ago… and Abbie and Ichabod are on a seven-year quest to take down the Headless Horseman and other agents of darkness… Did anyone else just get the chills?)

The renewal means Fox will forego a back nine for Sleepy Hollow and stick to its original, cable-like, 13-episode-per-season plan.

…I just love me some mansplaining! Wait, no, the opposite is true. Mansplaining makes my blood boil and I have secret daydreams where I’m pulling out a move like I’m the Black version of Angelina Jolie in Salt. Unfortunately, because I’m anti-violence and can’t fight, I mainly have to respond to mansplaining with assertive and serious pushback sans curses because my parents are pastors and I still feel a pang of guilt when I curse.

Next on the list of rumored blame I heard was “this was an incident that started in the ‘hood and just ran down the street.” There are definite buffer zones between whatever is left of the ‘hood and the Capitol.

sagittarius

Afternoon, Fam

::sigh:: We WILL make it through! No weapon formed against him shall prosper…

Alma98

Afternoon sagi. PBO can never have one day without craziness.

crazycanuck

You know, I’m not a big prayer person,but I say a little prayer for your Pres everyday. The man is trying so so hard, and doing so much in such a hateful environment.

AxelFoley

Amen. Amen.

crazycanuck

Speaker John Boehner ‏@SpeakerBoehner1m
We all owe the Capitol Police a debt of gratitude for their work every day; no finer examples of professionalism & bravery.

MsKitty

Presented without further comment (mostly because I’m too pissed to form a coherent thought):

Speaker John Boehner ‏@SpeakerBoehner now

We all owe the Capitol Police a debt of gratitude for their work every day; no finer examples of professionalism & bravery.

conlakappa

Expect to see Terry Gainer’s big, greasy mug everywhere.

crazycanuck

Yup, there are no words

qosine

Well, yes, along with your paycheck, you have added more
police officers, to protect you from the consequences of your
tactics and rhetoric.

No budget appropriations = no multi-billion dollar military subsidies for Israel.

goldenstar

Bibi comes over here and tries to front PBO. In Public. For being raised in the US, brother man has NO cultural competency. Since when would you front a black President especially when he is outwardly intelligent and cautious? And, he has demonstrated that he can handle a crisis or two and the those crises have resolved positively.

Bibi is a Stoopid Gangster.

Alma98

They’re saying the shooter is a black female. So I expect the msm will milk it for all it’s worth.

It probably scared him seeing all those police, it probably caused flashbacks for him lol.

crazycanuck

He probably thought they were coming for him and wanted to get inside to do some shredding.

Alma98

LOL

conlakappa

Oh, no, you done released the Kraken: expect Cynthia McKinney to find whatever microphone and spotlight that will have her and talk about how she was roughed up by the CP.

goldenstar

Grand Theft Auto!!!!

Miranda

Congressman Tweets About Democrats’ “Violent Rhetoric” After Capitol Hill Shooting, Then Deletes It

The details of this afternoon’s shooting outside the U.S. Capitol are still developing. Lawmakers and staff were told to shelter in place after shots rang out outside the Capitol, and one sheltered lawmaker took the opportunity to rag on Democrats’ “violent rhetoric” during the government shutdown. On his personal account, Arkansas Rep. Tim Griffin tweeted this news about the shooting:

What Happens to Conservatism When the Obamacare War Is Over?
OCTOBER 2, 2013

Over the last four years, Obamacare swallowed conservatism whole. Where will they go now?

When we look back decades from now, one of the keys to understanding this period in our political history will be the story of how a set of market-based health insurance reforms that started as a proposal from the Heritage Foundation and then were successfully implemented by a Republican governor who later became the GOP presidential nominee, ended up being viewed by virtually all conservatives as not just an abomination but the very essence of statist oppression. Liberals have often expressed wonder or exasperation about the way conservatives changed their opinions about this particular brand of reform. But now that it’s driving a government shutdown (and soon a potential default on the debt), we have to acknowledge that it’s more than just a policy conservatives hate. The Affordable Care Act is far, far bigger than that. It has become the most important definer of conservatism in America circa 2013. It isn’t that conservatives don’t still want to cut taxes for the wealthy, or slash the social safety net, or liberate corporations from pesky regulations on worker safety and the environment, or make it impossible for women to get abortions, because they still want all those things. But Obamacare has swallowed conservatism whole.

Harry Reid on Obama at Shutdown Meeting, ‘The POTUS was very very strong, strong, strong.’

The dynamic playing out in the Democratic Party is that the unity at
the top has brought everyone together. Reid and Pelosi seem delighted with Obama’s hard line stance, and the president is drawing strength from the fact that his own party has his back. The Democrats are clearly engaged in an ultimate standoff with the tea party radicals in the House.[….]

– —The United States Capitol was placed on lockdown for a half-hour Thursday afternoon after a woman tried to ram a car into the White House gate, was chased by Secret Service and shot and killed by police, sources said.

The suspect — who sources said had a child in the car — may have fired on law-enforcement, sources said. At least one Capitol Police officer was injured, but not shot, during the pursuit, officials said.

“This appears to be an isolated incident,” said Capitol Police Chief Kim Dine. “Both scenes are under control.”- – —

– –Shocking. . . .

— – -People R upset.. . . MoreL8R. – – -

edp4bho

Hi GLH. What a shame a child had to witness all this madness. God bless him/her. The world is F’ed up anymore.

lamh36

Ok, they said the woman was unarmed.

I see some reports saying she got out of the car? Anyone else seeing that?

My first question? Why was she trying to drive the car through the barricade pillars at the White House?

My next question? When she couldn’t get through and the Capitol Police pulled their guns, from the video she appeared to reverse as the Capitol officer was reaching for the door handle and she drove off.

All this with her child in the car!!! WTF is going on?

Damn. The Cap Police betta have some answers.

Also too, they are saying that the woman was African American? Where are they reporting that from? Are people assuming that because of the image from the video of the child?

creolechild

This merry-go-round turns kid energy to clean energy

A non-profit called Empower Playgrounds has developed a way to harness the energy of kids playing in order to provide electricity to poor rural villages in Africa. The organization is making merry-go-rounds that have a clean tech twist — onboard kinetic energy harvesters that store that energy in batteries for later use …[….]

Most kids in Koni Kablu, Ghana, have to work on the family farm during daylight hours, and can study after dark only if they’re lucky enough to have a kerosene lantern. As a result, none of the children from the town have reached the high school level.

As Empower founder Ben Markham says, “It wasn’t lack of capability. These kids were capable, they were bright, they were inquisitive. The opportunity just wasn’t there.” But with Empower Playgrounds, they can use the nearly inexhaustible natural resource of childhood enthusiasm to generate their own light.[….]

– – – –ObamaCare’s online insurance markets were famously glitchy on launch day, but that might not all have been the result of shoddy tech work. In New York, computer security experts suspect that the state’s exchange was targeted by hackers in a DDoS attack, the New York Post reports. The site buckled under the weight of 10 million visits on Tuesday, even though there are only about 1.1 million New York residents who don’t have health care. “The numbers are fairly compelling,” one expert says.
New York officials say they’re “looking into the cause of the abnormally high traffic.”
THERE IS MORE. . . .WATCHIN’—

Alma98

It wouldn’t surprise me at all. SMH

creolechild

Furloughed Government Employees

The government shutdown may have left its employees high and dry but, on Tuesday, businesses quickly stepped up to ease the pain.[….]There are so many local businesses jumping on the bandwagon that the Washington Post is keeping an ongoing list that is constantly updated.[….] As of Tuesday night, over 40 businesses were already onboard. If what the places are offering isn’t free, it’s discounted.[….]

Seventy-eight-year-old Tona Herndon of Oklahoma was already
vulnerable in every way when her purse was stolen while visiting her
husband’s newly dug grave. The thief’s mugshot flashed across the
TV screen after he was caught and 15-year-old Christian Lunsford
recognized the culprit right away.

The man was his wayward father, who had been in and out of prison for years since leaving two years after Christian was born. Then, the 15-year-old did something remarkable. He took the $250 which his father had given him for his high school band trip and gave it to the white-haired widow.[….]